OBIT: Jonas Elmer BEACHY, 1941, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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JONAS ELMER BEACHY

Grantsville, Maryland

  Jonas Elmer Beachy, 52, well known resident of this community, died at his 
home here about 1:15 o'clock Thursday morning, Dec. 17, after several months 
illness.
  Born near Grantsville, April 5, 1889, he was a son of the late Jacob and Mary 
Beachy.  His entire life was spent in this community where he was engaged in 
farming.  He married Miss Carrie Diefenbach 21 years ago.  She and their three 
daughters, Mildred L., Mary Jane and Grace V. Beachy, all at home, survive.  
Also surviving are three sisters, Mrs. Alva Spoerline, Somerset, Pa., Mrs. 
Walter Cook, Frostburg, and Mrs. Irvin Beachy, Grantsville, and two brothers, 
Clarence and Sherman Beachy, Grantsville.
  Mr. Beachy took an active part in the work of the local Lutheran church, of 
which he had been a member since 1914.  He was also a member of the Grantsville 
Volunteer Fire Department.
  Following a short service at the home, funeral rites were conducted in the 
Lutheran church at 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon, by Rev. Samuel D. Sigler, 
pastor.  Interment was in the Grantsville Cemetery under the direction of 
William Winterberg, local mortician.  Pallbearers were Charles S. Zeller, 
Emerson Sebold, Wendell Lohr, Adam A. Hanft, Daniel Klotz and Harold Miller.

Meyersdale Republican, December 25, 1941